What exactly is 'Lucky Shot'?

[Strawbs]

Title. I couldn't find anything about it ingame (I wasn't really paying attention during the tutorial) or online.

[J0kk3]

headshots i believe

[Normal]

random shots that may give a lot of extra damage
you may confuse them with crits, but those are headshots or weakspot hits

[countdekutree]

Originally posted by J0kk3 - 尤克:

headshots i believe

regular headshots are crits - lucky shots seem to be chance-based

[Asurakai]

basically crit chance on hit you can crit on weak point damage. over capping 100% lucky strike lets crit even higher

[Atma]

Originally posted by asda dadas:

random shots that may give a lot of extra damage
you may confuse them with crits, but those are headshots or weakspot hits

This is the right answer.

Crit = Headshot / Weakpoint hit

Lucky Shot = what we normally think of as crits

[Hustensohn]

As far as i understood it, critical strikes on weak spots and lucky shots are two entirely different things which can occur at the same time or not. Both do increase the damage of the shot though.

I'm not even sure, which of these get affected by CritX, which is basically a critical strike bonus damage multiplier.

[Atma]

I was under the impression that CritX only effects headshots / weakspot hits, since only those are considered to be "Crit" by the game.

I honestly have no idea, though.

[Strawbs]

It'd be nice to have status effects and terms explained in the logbook ingame.

[Toosoft]

i think when you hit a weakspot it's like hitting with a bonus 100% lucky shot, but they differenciate it for scroll and skills.

first the damage number color :
-white base damage
-yellow crit
-orange crit *2
-purple crit *3
-dark red crit *4

when i say crit *2 it double your crit damage
for example your defaut weapon do 2 times more damage on crit if you perform a crit *2 you perform 4 time the damage, crit*3 6 times etc.

if you have 50% lucky shot and you shoot the leg 50% of your shot will be yellow or white
if you shoot in the weakspot 50% of you shot will be yellow or orange.
and with high lucky shot chance you can perform dark red for tremendous damage

i hope i help you it's a bit messy

[Implosay]

CritX increases the damage multiplier when hitting a weakspot, like a monster's head. The Prism for example has a 3.0X damage multiplier on weakspot hits. So imagining you do 100 damage on a bodyshot, a headshot will do 300. If it gets, say, +40% Crit, then the multiplier becomes 3.4X, so now the headshot deals 340.
A weakspot shot is called a "crit" in game

Lucky shots are a flat percentage based chance to deal multiple times your base damage. If a weapon has a 20% lucky shot inscription, every shot you fire has 20% chance to inflict more damage than usual. It's as simple as that.
It's completely chance based.

Lucky shots and weakspot shots can happen at the same time for even more damage.

Weakspot hits are yellow damage numbers
Lucky shots are orange damage numbers
(I've also seen purple damage numbers but I'm still not sure what they represent, they seem to only show on certain weapon inscriptions like "150% chance to lucky shot if 3 consecutive hits are crits". It's weird)

[Asurakai]

lucky strike deals double damage and has a chance to deal it . over 100% it has a chance to deal triple damage and so on i think. it doesnt scale with critx

[Toosoft]

i'm pretty sure that lucky chance proc on critx, i wouldn't achieve a 226 k hit without that.
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